Workers who suddenly find themselves jobless because of the pandemic are most likely eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.

Workers who suddenly find themselves jobless because of the pandemic are most likely eligible for unemployment insurance benefits. Consumer investigator Chris Chmura reports.

Officials say California’s unemployment rate fell to a new record low of 4% in September.

California’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% in June.

California’s jobless rate fell to 4.2 percent in May, with particularly low unemployment in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nine restaurants around Contra Costa County have been issued administrative fines for allegedly failing to provide workers’ compensation insurance, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in January, the lowest figure since 1976.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in January, the lowest figure since 1976.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent in December. The state Employment Development Department says that’s a new record low in records dating back to 1976, surpassing the record low of 4.6 percent set in November.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent in May, down from 4.8 percent a month earlier.

All but one of the nine Bay Area counties had unemployment rates in July below the statewide average, officials with the state’s Employment Development Department said Friday.

The number of people emerging from unemployment in California is making encouraging gains, according to statistics released Saturday by the state’s Employment Development Department.

California’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.1 percent in August, down slightly from 6.2 percent in July, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.